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If armed intruders breached security at the nuclear power station in Surry County, could Dominion Virginia Power and surrounding communities mount an effective response? That was the question behind a role-playing drill held Tuesday so FEMA could evaluate the ability of the utility company and local and state governments to keep the public safe from a hostile event at the Surry Nuclear Power Plant. At a public meeting Friday to deliver its preliminary results, federal officials gave a resounding "yes." "All of the responsible organizations did a phenomenal job," said Thomas Scardino, chief of FEMA's Technical Hazards Branch based in New Jersey. "Dominion...

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If armed intruders breached security at the nuclear power station in Surry County, could Dominion Virginia Power and surrounding communities mount an effective response?
That was the question behind a role-playing drill held Tuesday so FEMA could...

Surry County residents might see emergency responders and their vehicles active in and around the Surry Power Station on Tuesday as part of an annual role-playing preparedness exercise.
Participants from more than two dozen local, state and federal...

Jerry Bischof's work pager buzzed as the server arrived with his plate of herb-rubbed salmon.
The message told him that power to one of the two nuclear reactors at Surry Power Station had been lost. It was operating on backup generators.
Before he could...

The Surry Power Station was running at diminished capacity Sunday after the effects of Saturday's severe weather.
Dominion officials said Sunday that a tornado apparently touched down on the switchyard supporting the nuclear power station and the...

Thousands of people in Virginia were without electricity Monday, two days after deadly tornadoes pummeled the southern United States.
Among the hardest hit areas was Gloucester County, where emergency responders have been working since late Saturday to...

Scrambling to shrink their carbon footprints, federal agencies in Hampton Roads and beyond are eyeing a proven yet controversial source of energy: nuclear power.
But they’re not pursuing large-scale power plants that tend to evoke the accidents at...

The second nuclear reactor at Surry Power Station is running near capacity after a two-month shutdown.The reactor, which was shut down when a tornado cut electric service to the power station on April 16, was operating at 94 percent capacity on Monday,...

Radioactive tritium used in everything from wristwatches to hydrogen bombs has leaked into groundwater at Virginia’s two commercial nuclear power plants during the past four years.While not known to have reached public water supplies, the leaks are part...

Last month’s earthquake may have shaken North Anna nuclear power station twice as hard as it was designed to withstand, federal regulators said Thursday.The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which is investigating the incident, has not found serious damage...

NEWPORT NEWS — Weeks after a rare earthquake forced the shutdown of North Anna nuclear power plant, state regulators approved a permit enabling a proposed third reactor to inch forward.The Virginia Marine Resources Commission on Tuesday voted...

At the fortified entrance of FirstEnergy's Beaver Valley nuclear power plant — before submitting to the background check, the metal detectors, the puffer machines and the scan of all personal belongings — employees and visitors pass by an LED sign...

The Salem 1 nuclear reactor is offline while crews work to repair a cooling unit inside a containment building at the southern New Jersey facility. The South Jersey Times (http://bit.ly/1DspMTp ) reports that the reactor in Lower Alloways Creek Township...

Federal environmental officials want the U.S. Army to explore alternatives to its plan to leave an estimated 160,000 pounds of depleted uranium projectiles in place at a former weapons testing site in southern Indiana that is now accessible to hunters....

An environmental group wants federal regulators to withhold the licensing of a nuclear power plant along the Tennessee River unless the commission first takes into account flood and earthquake risks at the Watts Bar Unit 2 reactor. The Southern Alliance...

Tucked behind a ruined grain elevator at a pier along an industrial stretch of Baltimore's waterfront lies a still-gleaming white vessel that was once one of the nation's proudest maritime achievements — the only nuclear cargo and passenger ship ever...

Sales of Geiger counters and potassium iodide supplements that can block some radiation have surged nationwide since Friday, fueled by concerns among some Americans that radiation released from Japanese nuclear plants could spread to the United States.
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Small amounts of radioactive isotopes from the crippled Japanese nuclear power plant are being blown toward North America high in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean and will reach California as soon as Friday, according to experts.
A network of...

Fallout from Japan's crippled nuclear reactors already is being detected thousands of miles away. But scientists who track pollution blowing across the Pacific Ocean say the amount of radioactivity should pose no danger to the United States.
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